On August 19, 2021, during Ashura, a significant day of mourning, nine-year-old Priya Kumari vanished. Moments before her potential abduction, she was joyfully assisting her father—a Hindu who embraces the syncretic traditions and annually operates a sabeel during Muharram in Sanghar, a small town near Sukkur—by distributing sherbet to the mourners. […]
Despite the passage of seven years, the two consecutive governments of Pakistan Peoples Party could not get the law against forced religious conversion passed by the Sindh Assembly regardless of the rising trend of adductions, forced marriages and conversion of young girls belonging to religious minorities. According to Hindu and Christian […]